The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-12-29
A BATTLE OF RACES.
Russian and Hungarian Miners In
dulge in Fight.
The Face of Every Man in Battle Bat
tered and Bloody,
A Few of the Combatants Carried
Away to DIE.
One of the Russian Leaders Taken In
by the Police.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-There was
peace in Hibernia until three months
ago. Then the Russians came and
brought war. Hibernia is a mining
town of about !, 100 souls, at the foot of
three hills in Morris county, New Jer
sew. It is a desolate region and except
rocks and scrub trees it has nothing 10
boast of but magnetic iron ore. Seven
hundred men are employed IN the
mines and nearly one-third of them
are Hungarians and Russians. Until
September these two classes OF toliers
worked side by side in harmony. Their
wages were put up to S1.5O day.
Then some Russian miners who had
lost their Job in Pennsylvania came TO
Hibernia and began to make trouble.
The Hungarians were forced to lodge
by themselves. The Russians also
went into huts by themselves. This
little international difficulty broke out
into a battle on Monday afternoon. Ev-
erybody was celebrating Christmas.
There were six Hungarian in one party
in John G. Hasslin's saloon at the
northern end of the village, and three
times during the mOTningthey had Deen
| assaulted by squad OF twenty Sus-
slams. Both armies were drunk. AT
$50 p. IN. the Russians moved in force
| upon the Hungarians in Hasslin's sa-
| loon They had stones in their peck
cts and tlourished clubs. shovels and
| knives.
Constable Anize Waer saw them
march up to IIasslin's front door. lie
ran to the kitchen entrance and warn
| ed the proprietor and Hasslin called to
| his son for help. but the Russians had
battered in the front door, and though
the first intruders were frightened out
Il grand brigade forced the door in
| again. Then there was a rally by the
| Hungarians and the whole crowd was
soon out on the roadway. The Rus
slams used their knives and stones, and
shoVeIs, and clubs for all they were
worth. The Hungarians were not
armed, bat they seized some OF the
weapons of their antagonists and
| fought them down the road foot by
| foot. Both sides yelled for reinforce
ments. No Russians responded, but
some HungarianS came from the upper
IIibernarian hill. Then slowly the
the village road.
After being driven back for a
quarter of a mile the Russians scat
tered and ran. The face of every man
in the battle was battered and bloody.
One of the IIungarians, John Mag
gour. was found stabbed in the back
under the shoulder blade. Another
Hungarian, Majk ParceIy, had his
left arm cut open from the shoulder
to the elbow. Majk Kiaznak Russian,
was reported as having a fractured
skull. Andrew Maggour received, 1t
is thought, death wounds. He was
carried from the road suffering from
stab in the back three inches long
and very deep. On the back of his
head just below the left ear, his scalp
had been cut open with heavy bottle
The doctor says there is little
hope of saving his life. John
Sutyok and his brother Mi
cheal, the Russian leaders were
accused of having stabbed Maggour.
John and one other Russian ran away
from Hibernia on Monday night. Mi
chael could not be found until yester-
day, when Constable Waer arrested
him. Others of the rioters will be ar
rested to-day.